From Our Correspondent
Rivers State Governor, Siminialayi Fubara, has reaffirmed his administration’s resolve to enhance the welfare of the state civil servants.
Fubara made the remarks when he addressed a group of workers, who protested at the Government House, on Thursday, in Port Harcourt.
TheNewsZenith reports that the workers converged at the Government House to register their grievances over the non-payment of the N100,000 Christmas largesse the governor approved for civil servants.
Represented by the State Head of Service, George Nweke, the governor apologised to the workers over the development.
He attributed the delay in paying the largesse to the unfavourable telecommunication networks within the banks handling the disbursement.
Fubara said that workers, who had yet to get their largees “are lucky” because some people might have finished their money immediately after they received it.
“All I can say is that we apologise for the inconvenience the delay has caused you. The governor’s intention was very noble and good.
“We have never seen it this way and no other state had done what the governor had done for workers,” he told the workers.
According to him, the state government had released the money but some banks are encountering network glitches.
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“But, I can assure you that they are on top of the issue because the bank had promised to rectify the problem,” the governor’s representative said.
He further assured the workers that by Friday they would receive the money.
Fubara also urged the workers to continue to be good ambassadors of the state.
He charged them to show commitment, diligence and dedication as well as putting out a good image for the state.
The governor assured the workers that other issues, such as the unpaid arrears, would also be adequately addressed.
Earlier, the spokesperson for the group, Mrs Nengi Effa, said that most of the workers affected were teachers.
Effa said that they decided to bring their complaints to the governor after several attempts to rectify the issues with their organisations and banks failed.
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